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Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
At a length of nearly two and a half miles, it is the second longest bridge on the Overseas Highway after the Seven Mile Bridge. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current bridge opened in 1982, replacing the parallel Long Key Viaduct , which carried the Overseas Railroad from 1907 to 1935 and was repurposed for highway use shortly after.
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Like most places, Key West has changed through the decades. Tourism became the economy’s bedrock. Chain stores moved downtown. More people, more cars. ... See old photos of streets, buildings ...
A view of the Overseas Highway’s Seven Mile Bridge near Little Duck Key and Bahia Honda State Park on Monday, October 11, 2021. When did the Seven Mile Bridge open? The bridge opened in 1982.
Overseas Highway and Railway bridges, Florida Keys The Overseas Highway begins at a T intersection between US 1 and SR A1A, from which it heads east. [4] After crossing to Stock Island and forming the boundary between the eponymous district and incorporated Key West, US 1 proceeds through unincorporated Monroe County on Boca Chica Key, [5] past Naval Air Station Key West, and Rockland Key ...
Key West is closer to Havana (about 106 miles or 171 kilometers by air or sea) [8] than it is to Miami (130 miles or 210 kilometers by air or 165 miles or 266 kilometers by road). [7] Key West is the usual endpoint for marathon swims from Cuba, including Diana Nyad's 2013 swim [33] [34] and Susie Maroney's 1997 swim from within a shark cage. [35]
Note: There is no standard way to measure the total length of a bridge. Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge.